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Valeriy Grachov



Ukraine
+380 93 7337302

http://www.valeriygrachov.kiev.ua

Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Realismus


Statement:
My comprehension of absolute unity of the being had formed in the youth. Later I found acknowledgement of this understanding in the philosophy of Spinoza, Dekart, Chinese Daoism, Indian Shunyata and Advaita.

At the moment I position myself as an artist working in direction of romantic realism based on mountain landscape. However, it has not always been like that. My youth passed in stifling time of Breznev�s government and of course everything was prohibited except of socialistic realism. Therefore I kept away from officious art although I had never regarded myself as a dissident. I simply tried to live and work freely and independently, what was duly paid by society with non-admission to market and falling into full oblivion. I managed to get means of subsistence by performing small architectural and designing orders. No doubts that I outgrown �child illness of leftishness in abstractionism� by form-quest trough years. My third and fourth solo exhibitions were almost fully abstract. The following 5 years I painted sky, �airplane landscapes�, when the point of view is so high and there is no Earth in the field of vision and there are only sky and play of clouds on the canvas. And later I began painting mountain landscapes. When you look at mountain range of Karakorum from a great height, the landscape falls to applicative colored pieces that look delicately like medieval gobelin during the day and stun with all colors of rainbow at the sunset light.

Generally, abstractionism is an angle or point in thinking and in material incarnation. All artists know that when a small fragment saturated with colors is taken from a realistic panting and then enlarged to a size of 2x2 meters, an abstract painting appears. Digital world shows this idea congenially � just scan a square inch of a painting and then enlarge it to a full screen view. One day to my great surprise, I found out that my favorite producer Antonioni, which had been creating movies in direction of new realism, opened an exhibition of abstract oil miniatures. Now I am not surprised anymore � I think these are facets of the same creative process � sometimes it is nice to see the world in whole and sometimes to penetrate deeply into its forms. It is a pleasure when a realistic work has enough spontaneity to let its forms be admired, but also it is great when abstract work shows needed depth which wakes up imagination of the audience as a starter provoking to making new worlds.

It seems to me that speed of painting a work is a pledge of its quality � faster is better (I mean professional work indeed). When I begin new realistic work, it is often already formed in my mind completely and sometimes even in smallest details. Unlike realistic work, an abstract one is the other way round � there is a special pre-feeling which is concerned with a certain color gamma. Sometimes I feel mass of such spots, but the rest fully depends on spontaneity. New work needs new techniques, otherwise the artist starts reproducing his old ideas and gradually become degraded in his art.

Realistic works are more national, because their subjects are often concerned with ethnic life or particular places. Abstractionism is a result of industrial world. It seems to me, we have been children of a single Culture for a long time already. In different parts of the world we listen to Scofield and Bach, read Orwell and Dostoevsky, watch movies of Tarantino and Visconti and of course use the Internet. And if a national trait appears, it may be because of a philosophical subject of Slav or extreme form refinement of Japanese.


Vita / Lebenslauf:
Valeriy Grachov was born in Archangelsk, Russia in 1949. He went to school in Leningrad in 1956 and later moved to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine with the family. He left high school in Kiev and entered Kiev�s Institute of Design and Architecture in 1966 with following graduation in 1972. The artist traveled, resided and worked in many places over mountains in Central Asia, Baikal, Far East, on the islands in Japanese Sea. He lived and worked in Jyvaskyla (Finland) in 1988, Trenton (USA) in 1989-90, Prague (Czech Rep.) in 1974-75. Presently lives in Kiev, Ukraine.


Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Single Exhibitions

Place, Year

1. The Institute of Experimental Designing, Kiev, Ukraine - 1975
2. The Union of Composers, Kiev, Ukraine - 1982
3. The Union of Composers, Kiev, Ukraine - 1984
4. The Union of Architects, Kiev, Ukraine - 1984
5. The Ministry of Geology, Kiev, Ukraine - 1988
6. The Club of Vasyutintsi Village, Chercassy Reg. Ukraine - 1989
7. The Palace of Sport, Kiev, Ukraine - 1993
8. The Ukrainian Art House, Kiev, Ukraine - 1993
9. The Museum of Shevchenko, together with S. Naberezhnih, Kiev, Ukraine - 1993
10. Rifle Club, Prague, Czech Republic - 1994
11. International Trade Center, Central Office of AUDI, Prague, Czech Republic - 1994
12. The Gallery �Fatherland�, Kiev, Ukraine - 1997
13. The Hall of Archive of Literature and Art, Kiev, Ukraine - 2002
14. The House of Actor, Kiev, Ukraine - 2003
15. The Art Gallery of Kiev-Mogylyan Academy, Kiev, Ukraine - 2004


Group Exhibitions

1. State Planetarium, Kiev, Ukraine - 1995
2. The Ukrainian Art House, Kiev, Ukraine - 1996
3. China Jinshan (Shanghai) International Folk Painting Exhibition - 2005
4. Aesthetica Magazine Art Exhibition, York, UK - 2006
5. 'Suzirja' Theater, Kiev, Ukraine - 2008
6. 'De Ribas'. The 'Soviart' Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine - 2008
7. 'Art Kiev 2008', Ukrainian House, Kiev, Ukraine - 2008


Awards

1. Winner in discipline Photography at DigiFestival.net, Mercafir, P.zza Artom 12 - FIRENZE, Italy - 2005
2. The Best Artwork of the Month, Mansco Style, January, Spain - 2008


Publications

Media, Year

1. Travel News Magazine, No. 10-11, pp. 37-40, Ukraine - 2003
2. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 4-5, Jul/Aug, USA - 2006
3. International Artist, No. 52, pp. 110-119, Dec/Jan, Australia/International - 2007
4. Fine Art Magazine, Spring 2007, pp. 44-45, USA - 2007
5. Harvests of New Millennium, Volume 1, number 1, January, India - 2008
6. Art Business News, July, USA - 2008


At dawn
Malerei
Ölmalerei
80 x 150 cm
2003
Preis: 5.600 Euro
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Peak of NKVD from shoulder of Peak of Korzhenevska
Malerei
Ölmalerei
78 x 148 cm
2004
Preis: 5.600 Euro
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Zindon River Canyon
Malerei
Ölmalerei
80 x 150 cm
2005
Preis: 5.600 Euro
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Chapdara
Malerei
Ölmalerei
65 x 115 cm
1993
Preis: 4.200 Euro
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Peak of Four Glacier
Malerei
Ölmalerei
55 x 100 cm
1999
Preis: 2.800 Euro
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Pass Chimtarginsky. Castle Mountain.
Malerei
Ölmalerei
65 x 115 cm
1993
Preis: 3.400 Euro
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Pamirskoe Firnovoe Plateau
Malerei
Ölmalerei
80 x 120 cm
2004
Preis: 5.600 Euro
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Pamirs Mountains 008
Malerei
Ölmalerei
50 x 100 cm
1997
Preis: 3.000 Euro
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Pamirs Mountains 009
Malerei
Ölmalerei
130 x 260 cm
1998
Preis: 15.000 Euro
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South Anapurna. Screen in 6 parts.
Malerei
Aquarell
80 x 270 cm
1997
Preis: 22.400 Euro
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Himalayas Mountains 011
Malerei

80 x 240 cm
2000
Preis: 5.600 Euro
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Djirgital
Malerei
Ölmalerei
60 x 80 cm
1992
Preis: 4.200 Euro
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Sunset On The Dragobrat
Malerei
Ölmalerei
60 x 160 cm
2006
Preis: 2.000 Euro
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Crimea Montains 014
Malerei

60 x 160 cm
2006
Preis: 2.000 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 006
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 007
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 008
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 009
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 010
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 011
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Digital abstract artwork 012
Medien
Computerkunst
30 x 30 cm
2009
Preis: 75 Euro
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Medien
Videokunst
2004
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